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§383 International design application

Title 35 › Part PART V— - THE HAGUE AGREEMENT CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS › Chapter CHAPTER 38— - INTERNATIONAL DESIGN APPLICATIONS › § 383

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Besides any Chapter 16 rules, an international design application must ask for international registration and say which Contracting Parties (countries) it covers. It must give the applicant’s required information, include one or more pictures or reproductions of the design in the number and form the treaty and Regulations require, state which product or products the design is for, pay the fees the treaty and Regulations set, and provide any other details the Regulations require.

Full Legal Text

Title 35, §383

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In addition to any requirements pursuant to chapter 16, the international design application shall contain— (1)
(2)an indication of the designated Contracting Parties;
(3)data concerning the applicant as prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;
(4)copies of a reproduction or, at the choice of the applicant, of several different reproductions of the industrial design that is the subject of the international design application, presented in the number and manner prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;
(5)an indication of the product or products that constitute the industrial design or in relation to which the industrial design is to be used, as prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;
(6)the fees prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations; and
(7)any other particulars prescribed in the Regulations.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the later of the date that is 1 year after Dec. 18, 2012, or the date that the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs enters into force with respect to the United States (May 13, 2015), and applicable only to certain applications filed on and after that

Effective Date

and patents issuing thereon, see section 103 of Pub. L. 112–211, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2012 Amendment note under section 100 of this title.

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Citation

35 U.S.C. § 383

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73